Course Expectations
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On the academic level, students are expected to have the
following skills:
1. Acquisition of proper terminology and understanding of
housing both as a process and a process.
2. The ability to deal with both housing uncertainty and
ambiguity (inadequacy of data, insufficiency of definitions,
opacity of goals, etc)
3. The ability to analyze and evaluate housing on the micro,
meso, and macro scales.
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On the behavioural level, students are expected to
1. Develop positive attitude.
2. Interest in the work, eager to learn, self-motivation, ability to
overcome frustrations.
3. Respect deadlines and attendance .
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Student responsibilities to the course
- Technical
skills: every student should develop technical
proficiency, establish technical standards for himself, and
constantly strive to improve. He should make use of current
developments in technological information, become familiar with
new materials, processes and equipments within and outside of
his domain. He should consider learning but with a choice which
directly relates to his discipline. Many excellent ideas are lost
forever because the individual could not technically produce
what he had envisioned.
- Communication:
communicative
every
skills
student
which
should
should
be
develop
visual,
his
workable,
numerical, and so on. Perhaps even more ideas are lost due to
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failure in communication. He needs to sharpen his awareness of
connotation
and
learn
to
use
them
to
his
advantage.
Communication skills are essential in the research process.
- Research:
every student should be able to interpret research
data. Research means asking questions, making observations,
gathering information or data, visual documentation, and so on.
We are living in the age of information. The student needs to
learn computers and be aware of current developments. You
cannot afford to waste time and effort reinventing the wheel with
each new problem.
- Problem
solving: every student should develop a sensitivity to
the problem and be able to identify a problem solving
methodology. He should approach problems in a way that goes
beyond the norms. He should be a boundary pusher. He should
be
able
to
organise
and
synthesize
diverse
bodies
of
information, strive to see relationships between seemingly
unrelated facts or information data and be thoroughly prepared
to work on several problems simultaneously.
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Expectations for each assignment and project
- Student will be keen to attend all lectures and submit the related
work.
- Assignments will be personally submitted at the appointed time.
- Assignments will be submitted as a hard copy accompanied by a
digital one.
- All assignments should be precise and to scale (if required).
- Student
should show full awareness about every detail of his
work.
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Additional Guidelines of Conduct
-All differences of opinion among the students, or even between
the students and the professor should be dealt with in a mature
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manner. Talk to the professor first! This rule applies to academic
or other differences.
-Cheating in any form will not be tolerated. Plagiarism will not be
accepted for any assignments.
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